April 3, 2025 • 33 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 2 (04/03) - Alex Stone comes on the show to talk about how Pres. Trump's tariffs on other countries are already impacting consumers here in the United States. More on the tariffs Pres. Trump imposed on countries outside of the United States. More people are hopping into the governor's race for 2026 in California. Amy King comes on the show to talk about the Wiggle Waggle Walk this Sunday at Brookside Park in Pasadena!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Can't. I am six forty. You're listening to the John
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radio show posted after four o'clock. The overwhelming story of
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the day, we're all the tariffs that Trump laid on many,
many countries around the globe. These are taxes on goods
that are imported from foreign countries here into America, and
they're pretty they're pretty hefty. I told you last hour
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that we have a huge trade imbalance around the world.
We sell China three hundred we buy from China three
hundred billion dollars more worth of goods than they buy
from US. And same thing with Europe, about two hundred
and thirty five billion more we pay to European countries
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than what they buy here. So we're we're sending a
lot of wealth to foreign countries and they're not. They're
not they're not buying our stuff, not in as grade
as number, either in you know, raw goods or dollar amounts.
So Trump wants to even everything out and that's why
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there's tariffs, because the higher the taxes on these imported goods,
he's expecting people in this country who will buy less
because the foreign goods will be more expensive. How expensive
what goods? Well, we're going to talk with Alex Stone
ABC News. He's going to give us an idea of
what's what might be going on in the coming days
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and weeks and months. Alex, how are you hey? They're
jan Yeah, and you sell the markets down almost seventeen
hundred points today. And you heard Debra there a moment
ago about SoCal Breweries as saying that your beer may
get more expensive because of the aluminum and the stainless
steel that they use. We've heard a lot about the
cars as well. Ferrari, you should have bought your Ferrari
yesterday because they're the first company to come out and
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say they're going to be adding up to ten percent.
Now you tell me, yeah, you should have done it. Now,
Now go spend your what are they one hundred and
fifty grand, two hundred grand, It's going to be more
in the next couple of days. They're going to go
up up to ten percent on cars sold in the US.
As result of the tariffs, and other companies have been
taking more of a wait and see approach on it.
But you got between the demand before the tariffs. We
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talked to one Toyota dealership that they sold seventy cars
last weekend, which you know, quite a bit for one dealership,
just to people coming in and saying they wanted to
do it on Saturday and Sunday last week before the tariffs.
So she had this demand that gobbled up what was available.
And now used car prices are going up because of
demand on the new cars four and then now the
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people may not be buying new cars or be able
to afford them if they do go up the way
some believe that they will. That they're going to use cars,
and there's more demand there, and people aren't selling their
cars because they can't afford to go buy a new car.
It's all connected, and then used car prices go up.
We talked to a general sales manager at a GMC
dealership in San Diego County and he says, it's all
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crazy right now. Reminds them a lot of COVID.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
There's a tremendous amount of uncertainty in the marketplace right now.
And this time brings us back to the COVID prices
where things elevated in terms of a price point due
to the shortage of inventory and supply for the consumer.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Web Bush Security is a financial firm. They have now
up their forecast for how much car prices are going
to go up five grand per car for an American
made car, just based on demand and on parts and
where the parts come from. That's on the low side
to fifteen thousand more for the exact same car than
it is today. That it will be on the higher
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end of that. But John, there's a lot more to it,
like the beer that the debro is talking about, but
a big impact on on avocados and importing them from
South America of course Mexico as well, because oh no, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
Wait a minute, avocados.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Yeah, I told you.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
So.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
People are getting creative now. We talked to Gary gregg
e Own's and nursery up in Richmond. He is selling
avocado trees starting at five feet tall, so customers can
buy mature trees and begin producing their own avocados because
of the terrafts.
Speaker 5 (04:32):
Everybody needs an avocado tree for not only the terrorists
to save some money, and the fact that you'll be
the coolest kid in the block if you're giving avocallas away.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
That is so true here in our newsroom. When somebody
comes in with a box of avocados from their tree
at home, they are the coolest kid on the block.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
So one time somebody did send me.
Speaker 6 (04:47):
It was a local farm and they sent me this
huge box of avocados and they were so amazing.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
That could be like four thousand dollars of avocados, now, wow,
sure it was. You could always go on the air
and beg for free. Avocados are going to be showing
up outside KFI now, But olive oil from Italy going
up because of a percentage more to bring it in.
Wineries say that their prices are going to be going
up because they don't they get their glass bottles from China.
(05:13):
Mostly they don't come from the US. The glass and
then the beer that you guys talked about. So there
are things so in the grocery world that they tell
us won't be going up. Chicken beef. A lot of
the veggies come from Central California because it's all mostly
US grown, and beef is not is all domestic. Yeah,
unless you're getting wagu or you know, one of those.
But now the only thing that could change that is
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if this doesn't go right and leads to inflation, then
those would be going up as well. But just as
a result of this. And canned goods like veggies and soups,
the grocery industry says that they've got about a six
month supply of those. So typically those if it's the
aluminum that's going up for the can or the other
ingredients that are in there, that they wouldn't You wouldn't
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feel that if you're going to to Vond's or Rouse
for canned food for an of months until they run
out of what they've already got. But other things like
avocados and all of oil things that are more perishable
vehicles because they move so quickly that that would be
a lot quicker. All right, Well, beef is a domestic
product largely and mentioned veggie, I know, but you're you're
(06:17):
blessed avocados. That's avocados, which kills me. Well, where do
they they come from? Mexico? Right? Well, I mean if
you go to Costco, a lot of them say Chile, Oh,
South America. I mean some come from the us in
San Diego County and up you know, near Spicabra. But but
not very many. Of the tariff across the board is
ten percent, like one hundred and eighty country's got a
ten percent tariff. I guess on everything. Mexico got a
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special twenty five percent tariff. Yeah, that's a problem. So
the Mexican avocados are going to be more expensive than Chile.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
At avocado tree, Alex.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
I think that's what I don't go to that guy
Gary Gregg up in Richmond. He'll sell you what they
go for, he said to ninety nine, depending on how
mature they are, ninety nine to like nine hundred. Maybe
not until you get Don't they have to? Don't they
have to mate some now with avocado trees. I don't know,
No they do. I think you have like a female
and a male tree and they have to, like, who
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make another avocado? Maybe you could do a special report
the sex life of avocado trees. What was that sound
that they We actually have a coworker here. She grew
up on an avocado farm. They actually supply down in
San Diego County for Costco, and she talks about that
they actually will do the uh, dirty work for the
avocados to make sure they all get firman or look
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planted or whatever they do. I can't tell if you're
kidding or not. I'm not kidding that the trees actually
have some kind of sexual tree? Do they do? From
what I understand, I don't have an avocado tree? But
how do they do that? I don't know. Google it.
I don't know, google it probably okay, yeah, John, and
put me on that tweet. I want to go to. Yeah,
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avocados sexual habits. God knows what's going to show up
on the screen. Yeah, maybe don't google that at work
you get home. That's that's not a good idea. All right,
Alex stalin caf I guys, thank you for agency there. Oh.
Speaker 6 (08:00):
I don't know, man, Maybe I don't want avocat I
don't know that.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Avocado male and female avocados? What are their roots getting
tie up with each other underneath?
Speaker 3 (08:08):
It kind of grosses me out for some reason.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
I told you they were going to be more expensive.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
Though, I know, yes, you're right.
Speaker 6 (08:14):
Well, we said food prices, all right, here's my canned
garbonzo beans are going to be okay for six months.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
Here's one for you, Eric, a price of beer is
going to be going up. I'm not really a beer drinker.
For vodka and whiskey, well, all right, those prices because
the glass comes from China, which I didn't know. No,
it's a well, we'll discuss more on this coming up,
and after two thirty. There's all kinds of objectionable characters
running for governor now, and we got a couple of
(08:41):
new ones, including someone who's Biden made famous. Uh did
you say the name? Oh, well, let's let's let's keep
it until we come back, all right, after two thirty,
we'll do but H. And he's he's got a really
sordid past. H. And then there's a second guy who's
currently in Newsom's administration, and he's got some weird side
(09:04):
gigs going on. Apparently a two hundred thousand dollars salary
as a government official isn't enough. He's into the nonprofit
game and he's working getting money through that venue. So
we'll tell you all about this because these are the
guys who had no chance to be governor, but they're
running because they've got nothing else to do. Tell you
about it in minutes, and we'll do more on the
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which products are going to be going up in price
immediately because of the tariffs.
Speaker 5 (09:30):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM six.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Forty moistline is eight seven seven Moist eighty six eight
seven seven Moist eighty six. Last Call Tomorrow's the show,
Tomorrow's two rounds of the Moistline in the three o'clock hour.
So this tarifft story has taken over the whole world,
even though most people probably don't even know what a
tariff is, how they work, why this has happened, The
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root of it is and Trump has been complaining about
this since the nineteen eighties. I saw some clips of
him on various shows throughout the eighties. This was always
his hot button issue. Back then it was the Japanese.
The Japanese was going to be this dominating force in
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the world economy, and then he became obsessed with the Chinese.
But it's all it's most of the major countries in
the world that we get our goods from. I mentioned
this earlier. From China, we import four hundred and forty
billion dollars worth of Chinese goods. We buy as Americans
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four hundred and forty billion dollars. We only export one
hundred and forty billion to China, so we're giving away
three hundred billion dollars of our wealth to China. We
buy electronics and machinery. Those are the two of the
top categories. Europe, it's the same thing. We import six
hundred billion, but we export only three hundred and seventy billion.
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So I mean between between China and Europe, it's over
half a trillion dollars of our wealth going to those countries.
Like net profit for those countries compared to what we're
getting from them half a trillion dollars. Mexico, same thing,
one hundred and seventy billion, Japan. I mean, it just goes.
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I can go on, and I don't want to just
overwhelm you with numbers. Now avocados, see, they're going to
put the tax on the importer, whatever company is importing
the goods, like Mexico imports avocados. Boom, that's a twenty
five percent tax. Now will we pay the whole twenty
five percent? That's unknown. The importer could pay some of
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the tax, the distributor could pay some of the tax,
the retail store could pay some of the tax. You
see there are a lot of middleman companies in between,
so the prices might not go up in accordance with
the tariff. That's okay, what oh, that's yeah, that we're
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gonna be Yeah, we're not paying we're not paying the
full tax and the and the they like, uh what
was I had a list here? Hold on pineapples. We
get eighty eight percent of imported pineapples from Costa Rica.
Pineapples are going to go up by ten percent. How
much is a pineapple? I don't even know. See when
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it comes to fruits and vegetables. Yeah, I'm told to
get a pineapple and it's three ninety nine, or it's
four ninety nine, or it's eight ninety. I don't know.
I don't know what a pineapple is supposed to cost.
Luxury watches all right now, we're more in your category here.
Speaker 6 (12:49):
Good thing.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
I'm not in the market for one right now.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Uh. Switzerland makes ninety percent of the watches that we import,
and they're all going to get a thirty percent tariff. Huh. Yeah.
I haven't wonn to watch in a long time.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
I don't either get the phone now exactly.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
And watchers used to irritate me I was always taking
them off and playing with them. It's bothered me. Let
me see what else do we have here? Oh? Christmas lights?
Not this is important right now? Uh. Campbodia huge supplier
of Christmas lights, fifty tariff. They provide two thirds of
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the imported Christmas lights. Uh. I didn't Wall Street Journal
picked these out. And they're kind of kind of odd products.
I mean, cars are obviously going to go up, especially
if you buy foreign cars, although a lot of American cars,
their parts are made in foreign countries. And and and
the there's a lot of crisscross like we supply parts,
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they supply parts, they assemble it in one country, they
sell it in another country. And Trump is saying this
is short term and eventually the other countries are going
to cave and they're going to lower their tariffs that
they have and allow us to sell more product over there.
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In addition, companies will set up factories here in America.
They've long since moved to Mexico and Asia, you know,
for decades now, and it hallowed out our manufacturing. And
what's interesting is, you know, he's absolutely right on all this.
It doesn't mean this is going to work, but he's right.
We gave away tens of millions of jobs, manufacturing jobs
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to China, and then everybody goes, oh wow, cool, look
at all the chief stuff we get from China. There
was a big cost to that. There are a lot
of people who normally would get decent paying factory jobs
who didn't and either they're unemployed or they dropped out
of the workforce. Because you might say, wow, you know
we have four percent unemployment, they have jobs. Well, not necessarily,
(15:09):
because an unemployment number counts only the people who are
looking for work. There are a lot of young guys
that've dropped out of the workforce. I mean, they have
a number called labor Partition's patient rate, what percentage of
the public is in the labor force, and it has
been at an all time loan recent years, and a
lot of young guys checked out. We're talking, you know,
(15:30):
in the basement playing Nintendo, drinking beer, doing drugs. I mean,
most of the heroin addicts are fentanyl addicts are young men,
and most of them are young men who can't do
white collar work. They can't do office jobs. That's what
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the factories were for. And you know, in return, we
got a lot of cheap goods, and that's been the
eternal debate. It's like, hey, you know, the the to say, hey,
you know we got look look at GDP. You know
this this has created a wealthier nation because goods are
cheaper now. Yeah, but there's a lot of people without,
without meaningful work. Quality of life is terrible for them.
(16:16):
And I have read some economists or some politicians say,
in retrospect people from like the Clinton administration, you know what,
we didn't factor that in. We didn't think about the
people who needed factory work because that's where their talents
lied lay. That's what they were capable of doing. They
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didn't think about the individuals. All they were thinking is,
look how cheap these these all this rag clothing is
going to be from Walmart. And you know people wear
Walmart rags all the time. Now it's practically formal wear
in this country. Not you, obviously, you spend a fortune
on your clothing, don't. Oh you do? I do?
Speaker 6 (16:57):
I really don't you really, I just have a lot
of clothes and they look nice.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
That would equal a fortune. Then you wear cheap clothing.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
I don't spend a lot of money on clothes. I
truly don't.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
You just have a lot I do.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
I mean this jacket.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
How many leopards did you kill for that?
Speaker 3 (17:19):
Probably bought this twenty years ago. I'm not kidding you.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Oh, so that's a real leopard code be a leopard.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
It's foe's faux that has a leopard print.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
How many foes did you kill? I don't know.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
I just bought it.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
I didn't All right, when we come back, we have
two candidates for governor that you never heard of. They're
both Democrats. Uh, there's a lot of unemployed or so
soon to be unemployed politicians who are looking for a
new work and so they're going to run for governor
because for the first time in many years, we have
a wide open race with no clear air apparent. I
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was thinking about that that this this is a little different.
So on the Democrats side, you're getting all these all
these hacks, A lot of them have worked in the
Newsom administration. Just what we need a third term of
the Newsom administration, or really the fifth, the fifth term
of Jerry Brown. Well, it's all that is coming up next.
Speaker 5 (18:18):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from kf I AM.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
Six forty around from one until four and then after
four o'clock John Cobelt Show on demand. That's the podcast,
same as the radio show, and we post that shortly
after four. Uh, there's a guy running for governor. We're
gonna periodically highlight all the characters running for governor. There's
there's an increasing number of them. This guy was a
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fringe player for a long time. He was in the legislature,
He was a congressman. He ended up being the Attorney
General of California under Newsom and then was selected by
Joe Biden. Biden had a thing for picking up a
loser California politicians like Kamala Harris was the vice president
and this guy was named Secretary of Health and Human Services.
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Hobbyer Bakaria Javier Bakaria, Sabber Bakaria. That's how Biden introduced
him when he was when he was selected. Now, Hobbyer
Bakaria is actually Xavier Bessera Hobbier Bakaria. Right. No, nobody
knew five years ago that Biden was senile. Right, Hobbier Bakaria.
(19:35):
Hobbier Bakaria. Well, uh, Bakorea is now running for governor.
Maybe we'll call him governor Bakaia. Hobbyer Bakaria, and he
announced and Alex Michaelson from Fox eleven is having him
on as a guest on the issue is, which runs
(19:56):
tomorrow night at ten thirty. But we haven't had an
advanced lip and now you're going to hear he is
such a political hack. You're going to hear the hackiest
answer a politician can give. Alex keeps pushing him for
specifics on what he's going to do differently. It's that
question again, same thing that tripped up Kamala Harris. Listen
(20:19):
to Bakaria spew for a couple of.
Speaker 7 (20:21):
Minutes expensive to live in California for a lot of people,
right that housing affordability, It is all the rest of that.
Speaker 4 (20:28):
But whose fault is that?
Speaker 7 (20:29):
Because Democrats have had a super majority in Sacramento for
decades now run every statewide office, isn't that the Democrats fault?
Speaker 1 (20:38):
Well, it's a.
Speaker 4 (20:39):
Growing issue we've had. Remember we've had Republican governors as well.
At homes too.
Speaker 7 (20:43):
Yeah, Arnold Torzenegger was elected in two thousand and six.
Speaker 4 (20:46):
I guarantee you Holmes in California two thousand and six,
we're too expensive back then, I.
Speaker 7 (20:51):
Know, but it's gone up a lot in the last
twenty years.
Speaker 4 (20:54):
We have not tackled it the way we should. And
I think principally the reason we have this issue in
California on price is because we haven't built enough, and
that means it's a type market. Everyone still wants to
come to California. People may be leaving, but there are
a whole bunch of people who would love to be
at a live in California.
Speaker 7 (21:09):
Well, from a policy perspective, what specific change are you
proposing that would be different than the status quo right
now that would make a difference and make prices less
in California.
Speaker 4 (21:21):
Yeah, I can tell you that status quo business as
usual is not on California California voter's mind as the
thing to do, and so I think all of us
are going to be talking change. But here's what I
would do. I would take the experience I had having
to lead this country at the Department of Health and
Human Services out of a pandemic, a once in a
lifetime pandemic, having to negotiate for the first time in
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our history, the lower prices for prescription drugs of some
of the most expensive drugs.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
Just stop a second. You noticee hasn't said is what
he's going to do differently than what Gavin Newsom has
been doing, because he's not going to do anything differently.
He was part of the Newsome administration a few years
ago Health in Human Services. Do you know what he
did there? He was in charge of lockdown policies and
(22:13):
vaccine policies. He once said it is absolutely the government's
business to know people's vaccination status. He's one of those guys.
We had the harshest climate here in California for lockdowns
and he didn't do any good. You know, we ended
(22:38):
up very similar to the way Florida ended up, which
had a lot of freedom early on, but he was
a lockdown and required vaccination guy. Play more.
Speaker 4 (22:52):
Lower prices for prescription drugs of some of the most
expensive drugs that our seniors on Medicare program have to use.
I would say say, you need to bring the problem
right to the table with the best experts there. You
scrub it and then whatever is left, whatever's clean and survives.
That's what you do, and we've not.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
You get experts together, you talk about all the possibilities,
and then you scrub it. You scrub it with like
a brellopad what what what does that mean? You scrub it?
I've never heard that used. Is that like doging it? Oh,
they're not going to be doging They're not going to
(23:32):
be like rooting out of the fraud and waist continue,
bring the problem.
Speaker 4 (23:37):
Right to the table with the best experts. There, you
scrub it again, and then whatever is left, whatever's clean
and survives. That's what you do. And we've not been
willing to do that because of all the politics, all
the old ways of doing things. We get caught up
in this knee jerk reaction that we can't do it
that way. Time to change.
Speaker 7 (23:56):
But is there a specific policy change that you would
propose time to make a difference on some of these
affordability issues?
Speaker 4 (24:03):
I think so, uh housing development. I think everyone agrees
we don't build enough. It's not enough to say, okay,
we all agree we don't build enough and they're not
doing anything that If I agree, then everyone from all
sides of this sit down. Scrub it. Because this is
what I had to do with COVID. This is what
I had to do when we're trying to get rid
of monkey pox, MPOs. This is what I had to
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do when we were figuring out what prices to negotiate
on the drugs, figure out where we could go and
then use.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
So wait, does he want us to wash our hands
like in COVID When we had COVID, Well, we scrubbed it.
When we had monkey pox, we scrubbed it. He caught
himself too monkey pile. Yeah. Way, we scrubbed COVID and
we scrubbed monkey pox. He was into mandatory masking, mandatory vaccines,
(24:58):
even pregnant women in infants. Yeah, yeah, you want this guy? Huh.
You know, people talk about how they want the control
of their body, you know, when it comes to reproductive rights.
Can we have control of our body when it comes
to injecting vaccines that carry elements of a deadly virus
(25:21):
in them? By the way, we played a clip of
this last week of Patrick Sun Chiang, the time Z owner.
But you know, his real business in life has been
a science researcher. He actually cured cancer, a certain kind
of cancer. That's how he made his billions of dollars.
(25:42):
He invented a cancer drug and then manufactured it for
a time and then sold two companies for several billion dollars.
And he's been doing research, and he thinks that the
spike in cancers, by colorectal cancer in younger people is
related to the COVID virus and maybe the COVID vaccine.
(26:09):
So the government forced vaccines on a lot of people.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
Although we did it voluntarily, every single one of them.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
We did it voluntarily. And that that's the last time
I'm going to do it. I hope I escape this,
this cancer surge that's going on in this country. That
that I mean, since Youyan said he hasn't slept for
two years. He's so consumed with worry. He did a
podcast with Tucker Carlson. It's on the iHeart app too.
(26:37):
You ought to listen to this. It's a couple of hours,
but it's it's worth it. And Trump wanted him to
have a position in the administration, uh in a medical
role obviously, and others who were involved in the whole
COVID policy debacle blocked him from getting in. He's got
(27:00):
I had some pretty scary stuff to say about how
this virus in the vaccine may lead to the cancer
surge now, and he's also got some really intriguing, worrisome
stuff about the politics going on inside these health agencies. Well,
I got a lot on Besarah, but not now. Plenty
(27:23):
of time. I'm keeping a Javier Bakaria file. When we
come back, Amy King is coming on because her Wiggle
Waggle Walk is this weekend.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
Are you gonna go wiggle waggle?
Speaker 1 (27:34):
I'm gonna wiggle my waggle. No, I'm not available to
wiggle waggle. But Amy's gonna explain how you could get involved.
Are you gonna wiggle waggle?
Speaker 3 (27:45):
I am not, but I did donate I have plans
or else I would go.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
All right, because you have two dogs. I do. We'll
be back and we'll talk to Amy King, and then
after three o'clock we're going to speak with with Todd Bensman.
He's the journalist who's been at the border for quite
some time, and he's going to talk about the massive
drop infentinel smuggling that's going on because of Trump's immigration policies.
(28:14):
That's all ahead.
Speaker 5 (28:15):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
Amy King hosts wake Up Call at five o'clock in
the morning, and she's hosting also the annual Wiggle Waggle
Walk for Pasadena Humane Society. Let's get Amy on here
because you could be a part of this and bring
yourself and your dog and you can go wiggle together. Amy.
Speaker 8 (28:38):
Good afternoon, John. First of all, thanks for letting me
come on and appeal to your listeners to join our
team and make a donation. The Wiggle Waggle Walk is Sunday,
that's just three days away, April sixth. It's at Brookside
Park at the Rose Bowl and they've got a one
mile walk if you're just a beginner, they've got a
three mile walk and run. It's actually a five k
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that starts at nine o'clock. The event opens at eight
and along with dog walking, there's vendors and food trucks
and training demonstrations and the ever popular dog costume contest.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
It's a big deal, a dog costume contest.
Speaker 8 (29:20):
You'd be amazed at how many people dress their dogs up.
And some of them get so creative. So it's all they.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
Dressed their dogs up. Oh I thought they were dressing
as dogs. I thought this was like a furry gate thing. No, okay,
all right, one, all right, so you dress up your
dog and you bring all right.
Speaker 8 (29:37):
That's better, absolutely, and it's gonna the weather is going
to be absolutely perfect. It's going to be like seventy
five to eighty this Sunday, And so if you want
to get out of the house on Sunday morning, it's
not even super super early because the event starts at eight,
the walks at nine, and all the money that we raised,
as you mentioned, goes to Pasadena Humane And you know,
we've partnered with them for quite a while and they
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do such great work to take care of animals and
get them to the health that they need to be
so that they are ready to be adopted and find
their forever homes. And this year is even more even
more important to donate because they take in animals that
were affected by the Eton fire. You know, when people
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lose their homes, dogs lose their homes too, And they
took in like twelve hundred animals in the days after
the fires. They were finding animals in the rubble a
week later and then taking them in and treating them
and nursing them back to health. And what they're doing
is really really amazing.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
Were they able to find the owners in most cases?
Speaker 8 (30:37):
In most cases, yeah, they've reunited the owners and then
any the few that they weren't able to, they get
them ready for adoption, and they make them available for adoption.
There's a few I think there. I think it's just
like a handful that were found after the fires and
haven't been placed in homes yet. And then the other
thing that they're doing is because you know, nine thousand
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homes are destroyed, and that means that the people don't
have a place to keep their animals, and so they
still have a couple hundred. I believe that that they're
boarding for free until they can get their dogs back
with their families. So they know that they're there, they
just don't have a place to keep them right now.
So Pasadena Humane's taking them in, all right.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
It's a lot of work, all right. So go through
the day and the time and the location again.
Speaker 8 (31:22):
Okay, it's this Sunday, April sixth. It's at Brookside Park
at the Rose Buls So the walk is actually around
the Rose Bowl the five k so it's a beautiful walk.
The event starts at eight, and that's where you're going
to find the vendors and food trucks and the training
demonstrations all that, and then the run and walk starts
at nine. O'clock and then we've got the contest for
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the costume contest is after the walk and run, and
there's lots and lots of booths. If you have animals,
they've got treats and all kinds of cool things that
you can boots for your animals.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
Boots booth. I thought you said boots of lots of
lots of booze for your dog. All right. It's KFI
AM six forty dot com slash Wiggle and that's where
people can donate money, all right.
Speaker 8 (32:07):
That's where you can donate. And also if you want
to join our team. I think we're up over thirty
people who are going to walk with the wait for it,
wake Up Call Wigglers. They've joined our team. So he'd
like to walk with us, We would love to have you.
Even if you don't have a dog, you can come
and walk with us or come check out the event.
And they're also going to have the Wiggle Waggle Wagon
where they're going to have some animals that are adoptable
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on site. So if you're maybe thinking that maybe it's
time to add to the family, you might find your
favorite dog there. So it's all happening again. Sunday and
you can get donation information and also sign up to
walk with us KFI AM six forty dot com slash wiggle.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
All right, thanks Amy, Good luck with it Sunday.
Speaker 8 (32:49):
Thanks again, John, appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
Oh sure, when we come back, we're going to have
Todd benzmanon. He writes for the Center for Immigration Studies,
longtime journalist. He's been at the border for you years
and he's now lonely. There's nobody at the border anymore.
Nobody's crossing. You know what else, they don't have crossing
as much fentanyl. Apparently fentanyl shipments have dropped dramatically. Todd's
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gonna explain all this. He'll be on next Deborah Mark
Live in the CAFI twenty four hour Newsroom. Hey, you've
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radio show posted after four o'clock. The overwhelming story of
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the day, we're all the tariffs that Trump laid on many,
many countries around the globe. These are taxes on goods
that are imported from foreign countries here into America, and
they're pretty they're pretty hefty. I told you last hour
(00:45):
that we have a huge trade imbalance around the world.
We sell China three hundred we buy from China three
hundred billion dollars more worth of goods than they buy
from US. And same thing with Europe, about two hundred
and thirty five billion more we pay to European countries
(01:08):
than what they buy here. So we're we're sending a
lot of wealth to foreign countries and they're not. They're
not they're not buying our stuff, not in as grade
as number, either in you know, raw goods or dollar amounts.
So Trump wants to even everything out and that's why
(01:32):
there's tariffs, because the higher the taxes on these imported goods,
he's expecting people in this country who will buy less
because the foreign goods will be more expensive. How expensive
what goods? Well, we're going to talk with Alex Stone
ABC News. He's going to give us an idea of
what's what might be going on in the coming days
(01:52):
and weeks and months. Alex, how are you hey? They're
jan Yeah, and you sell the markets down almost seventeen
hundred points today. And you heard Debra there a moment
ago about SoCal Breweries as saying that your beer may
get more expensive because of the aluminum and the stainless
steel that they use. We've heard a lot about the
cars as well. Ferrari, you should have bought your Ferrari
yesterday because they're the first company to come out and
(02:15):
say they're going to be adding up to ten percent.
Now you tell me, yeah, you should have done it. Now,
Now go spend your what are they one hundred and
fifty grand, two hundred grand, It's going to be more
in the next couple of days. They're going to go
up up to ten percent on cars sold in the US.
As result of the tariffs, and other companies have been
taking more of a wait and see approach on it.
But you got between the demand before the tariffs. We
(02:38):
talked to one Toyota dealership that they sold seventy cars
last weekend, which you know, quite a bit for one dealership,
just to people coming in and saying they wanted to
do it on Saturday and Sunday last week before the tariffs.
So she had this demand that gobbled up what was available.
And now used car prices are going up because of
demand on the new cars four and then now the
(03:01):
people may not be buying new cars or be able
to afford them if they do go up the way
some believe that they will. That they're going to use cars,
and there's more demand there, and people aren't selling their
cars because they can't afford to go buy a new car.
It's all connected, and then used car prices go up.
We talked to a general sales manager at a GMC
dealership in San Diego County and he says, it's all
(03:21):
crazy right now. Reminds them a lot of COVID.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
There's a tremendous amount of uncertainty in the marketplace right now.
And this time brings us back to the COVID prices
where things elevated in terms of a price point due
to the shortage of inventory and supply for the consumer.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Web Bush Security is a financial firm. They have now
up their forecast for how much car prices are going
to go up five grand per car for an American
made car, just based on demand and on parts and
where the parts come from. That's on the low side
to fifteen thousand more for the exact same car than
it is today. That it will be on the higher
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end of that. But John, there's a lot more to it,
like the beer that the debro is talking about, but
a big impact on on avocados and importing them from
South America of course Mexico as well, because oh no, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
Wait a minute, avocados.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Yeah, I told you.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
So.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
People are getting creative now. We talked to Gary gregg
e Own's and nursery up in Richmond. He is selling
avocado trees starting at five feet tall, so customers can
buy mature trees and begin producing their own avocados because
of the terrafts.
Speaker 5 (04:32):
Everybody needs an avocado tree for not only the terrorists
to save some money, and the fact that you'll be
the coolest kid in the block if you're giving avocallas away.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
That is so true here in our newsroom. When somebody
comes in with a box of avocados from their tree
at home, they are the coolest kid on the block.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
So one time somebody did send me.
Speaker 6 (04:47):
It was a local farm and they sent me this
huge box of avocados and they were so amazing.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
That could be like four thousand dollars of avocados, now, wow,
sure it was. You could always go on the air
and beg for free. Avocados are going to be showing
up outside KFI now, But olive oil from Italy going
up because of a percentage more to bring it in.
Wineries say that their prices are going to be going
up because they don't they get their glass bottles from China.
(05:13):
Mostly they don't come from the US. The glass and
then the beer that you guys talked about. So there
are things so in the grocery world that they tell
us won't be going up. Chicken beef. A lot of
the veggies come from Central California because it's all mostly
US grown, and beef is not is all domestic. Yeah,
unless you're getting wagu or you know, one of those.
But now the only thing that could change that is
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if this doesn't go right and leads to inflation, then
those would be going up as well. But just as
a result of this. And canned goods like veggies and soups,
the grocery industry says that they've got about a six
month supply of those. So typically those if it's the
aluminum that's going up for the can or the other
ingredients that are in there, that they wouldn't You wouldn't
(05:55):
feel that if you're going to to Vond's or Rouse
for canned food for an of months until they run
out of what they've already got. But other things like
avocados and all of oil things that are more perishable
vehicles because they move so quickly that that would be
a lot quicker. All right, Well, beef is a domestic
product largely and mentioned veggie, I know, but you're you're
(06:17):
blessed avocados. That's avocados, which kills me. Well, where do
they they come from? Mexico? Right? Well, I mean if
you go to Costco, a lot of them say Chile, Oh,
South America. I mean some come from the us in
San Diego County and up you know, near Spicabra. But but
not very many. Of the tariff across the board is
ten percent, like one hundred and eighty country's got a
ten percent tariff. I guess on everything. Mexico got a
(06:38):
special twenty five percent tariff. Yeah, that's a problem. So
the Mexican avocados are going to be more expensive than Chile.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
At avocado tree, Alex.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
I think that's what I don't go to that guy
Gary Gregg up in Richmond. He'll sell you what they
go for, he said to ninety nine, depending on how
mature they are, ninety nine to like nine hundred. Maybe
not until you get Don't they have to? Don't they
have to mate some now with avocado trees. I don't know,
No they do. I think you have like a female
and a male tree and they have to, like, who
(07:06):
make another avocado? Maybe you could do a special report
the sex life of avocado trees. What was that sound
that they We actually have a coworker here. She grew
up on an avocado farm. They actually supply down in
San Diego County for Costco, and she talks about that
they actually will do the uh, dirty work for the
avocados to make sure they all get firman or look
(07:27):
planted or whatever they do. I can't tell if you're
kidding or not. I'm not kidding that the trees actually
have some kind of sexual tree? Do they do? From
what I understand, I don't have an avocado tree? But
how do they do that? I don't know. Google it.
I don't know, google it probably okay, yeah, John, and
put me on that tweet. I want to go to. Yeah,
(07:49):
avocados sexual habits. God knows what's going to show up
on the screen. Yeah, maybe don't google that at work
you get home. That's that's not a good idea. All right,
Alex stalin caf I guys, thank you for agency there. Oh.
Speaker 6 (08:00):
I don't know, man, Maybe I don't want avocat I
don't know that.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Avocado male and female avocados? What are their roots getting
tie up with each other underneath?
Speaker 3 (08:08):
It kind of grosses me out for some reason.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
I told you they were going to be more expensive.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
Though, I know, yes, you're right.
Speaker 6 (08:14):
Well, we said food prices, all right, here's my canned
garbonzo beans are going to be okay for six months.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
Here's one for you, Eric, a price of beer is
going to be going up. I'm not really a beer drinker.
For vodka and whiskey, well, all right, those prices because
the glass comes from China, which I didn't know. No,
it's a well, we'll discuss more on this coming up,
and after two thirty. There's all kinds of objectionable characters
running for governor now, and we got a couple of
(08:41):
new ones, including someone who's Biden made famous. Uh did
you say the name? Oh, well, let's let's let's keep
it until we come back, all right, after two thirty,
we'll do but H. And he's he's got a really
sordid past. H. And then there's a second guy who's
currently in Newsom's administration, and he's got some weird side
(09:04):
gigs going on. Apparently a two hundred thousand dollars salary
as a government official isn't enough. He's into the nonprofit
game and he's working getting money through that venue. So
we'll tell you all about this because these are the
guys who had no chance to be governor, but they're
running because they've got nothing else to do. Tell you
about it in minutes, and we'll do more on the
(09:25):
which products are going to be going up in price
immediately because of the tariffs.
Speaker 5 (09:30):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM six.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Forty moistline is eight seven seven Moist eighty six eight
seven seven Moist eighty six. Last Call Tomorrow's the show,
Tomorrow's two rounds of the Moistline in the three o'clock hour.
So this tarifft story has taken over the whole world,
even though most people probably don't even know what a
tariff is, how they work, why this has happened, The
(09:57):
root of it is and Trump has been complaining about
this since the nineteen eighties. I saw some clips of
him on various shows throughout the eighties. This was always
his hot button issue. Back then it was the Japanese.
The Japanese was going to be this dominating force in
(10:17):
the world economy, and then he became obsessed with the Chinese.
But it's all it's most of the major countries in
the world that we get our goods from. I mentioned
this earlier. From China, we import four hundred and forty
billion dollars worth of Chinese goods. We buy as Americans
(10:37):
four hundred and forty billion dollars. We only export one
hundred and forty billion to China, so we're giving away
three hundred billion dollars of our wealth to China. We
buy electronics and machinery. Those are the two of the
top categories. Europe, it's the same thing. We import six
hundred billion, but we export only three hundred and seventy billion.
(11:02):
So I mean between between China and Europe, it's over
half a trillion dollars of our wealth going to those countries.
Like net profit for those countries compared to what we're
getting from them half a trillion dollars. Mexico, same thing,
one hundred and seventy billion, Japan. I mean, it just goes.
(11:26):
I can go on, and I don't want to just
overwhelm you with numbers. Now avocados, see, they're going to
put the tax on the importer, whatever company is importing
the goods, like Mexico imports avocados. Boom, that's a twenty
five percent tax. Now will we pay the whole twenty
five percent? That's unknown. The importer could pay some of
(11:50):
the tax, the distributor could pay some of the tax,
the retail store could pay some of the tax. You
see there are a lot of middleman companies in between,
so the prices might not go up in accordance with
the tariff. That's okay, what oh, that's yeah, that we're
(12:11):
gonna be Yeah, we're not paying we're not paying the
full tax and the and the they like, uh what
was I had a list here? Hold on pineapples. We
get eighty eight percent of imported pineapples from Costa Rica.
Pineapples are going to go up by ten percent. How
much is a pineapple? I don't even know. See when
(12:32):
it comes to fruits and vegetables. Yeah, I'm told to
get a pineapple and it's three ninety nine, or it's
four ninety nine, or it's eight ninety. I don't know.
I don't know what a pineapple is supposed to cost.
Luxury watches all right now, we're more in your category here.
Speaker 6 (12:49):
Good thing.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
I'm not in the market for one right now.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Uh. Switzerland makes ninety percent of the watches that we import,
and they're all going to get a thirty percent tariff. Huh. Yeah.
I haven't wonn to watch in a long time.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
I don't either get the phone now exactly.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
And watchers used to irritate me I was always taking
them off and playing with them. It's bothered me. Let
me see what else do we have here? Oh? Christmas lights?
Not this is important right now? Uh. Campbodia huge supplier
of Christmas lights, fifty tariff. They provide two thirds of
(13:34):
the imported Christmas lights. Uh. I didn't Wall Street Journal
picked these out. And they're kind of kind of odd products.
I mean, cars are obviously going to go up, especially
if you buy foreign cars, although a lot of American cars,
their parts are made in foreign countries. And and and
the there's a lot of crisscross like we supply parts,
(13:58):
they supply parts, they assemble it in one country, they
sell it in another country. And Trump is saying this
is short term and eventually the other countries are going
to cave and they're going to lower their tariffs that
they have and allow us to sell more product over there.
(14:23):
In addition, companies will set up factories here in America.
They've long since moved to Mexico and Asia, you know,
for decades now, and it hallowed out our manufacturing. And
what's interesting is, you know, he's absolutely right on all this.
It doesn't mean this is going to work, but he's right.
We gave away tens of millions of jobs, manufacturing jobs
(14:46):
to China, and then everybody goes, oh wow, cool, look
at all the chief stuff we get from China. There
was a big cost to that. There are a lot
of people who normally would get decent paying factory jobs
who didn't and either they're unemployed or they dropped out
of the workforce. Because you might say, wow, you know
we have four percent unemployment, they have jobs. Well, not necessarily,
(15:09):
because an unemployment number counts only the people who are
looking for work. There are a lot of young guys
that've dropped out of the workforce. I mean, they have
a number called labor Partition's patient rate, what percentage of
the public is in the labor force, and it has
been at an all time loan recent years, and a
lot of young guys checked out. We're talking, you know,
(15:30):
in the basement playing Nintendo, drinking beer, doing drugs. I mean,
most of the heroin addicts are fentanyl addicts are young men,
and most of them are young men who can't do
white collar work. They can't do office jobs. That's what
(15:51):
the factories were for. And you know, in return, we
got a lot of cheap goods, and that's been the
eternal debate. It's like, hey, you know, the the to say, hey,
you know we got look look at GDP. You know
this this has created a wealthier nation because goods are
cheaper now. Yeah, but there's a lot of people without,
without meaningful work. Quality of life is terrible for them.
(16:16):
And I have read some economists or some politicians say,
in retrospect people from like the Clinton administration, you know what,
we didn't factor that in. We didn't think about the
people who needed factory work because that's where their talents
lied lay. That's what they were capable of doing. They
(16:36):
didn't think about the individuals. All they were thinking is,
look how cheap these these all this rag clothing is
going to be from Walmart. And you know people wear
Walmart rags all the time. Now it's practically formal wear
in this country. Not you, obviously, you spend a fortune
on your clothing, don't. Oh you do? I do?
Speaker 6 (16:57):
I really don't you really, I just have a lot
of clothes and they look nice.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
That would equal a fortune. Then you wear cheap clothing.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
I don't spend a lot of money on clothes. I
truly don't.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
You just have a lot I do.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
I mean this jacket.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
How many leopards did you kill for that?
Speaker 3 (17:19):
Probably bought this twenty years ago. I'm not kidding you.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Oh, so that's a real leopard code be a leopard.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
It's foe's faux that has a leopard print.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
How many foes did you kill? I don't know.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
I just bought it.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
I didn't All right, when we come back, we have
two candidates for governor that you never heard of. They're
both Democrats. Uh, there's a lot of unemployed or so
soon to be unemployed politicians who are looking for a
new work and so they're going to run for governor
because for the first time in many years, we have
a wide open race with no clear air apparent. I
(17:57):
was thinking about that that this this is a little different.
So on the Democrats side, you're getting all these all
these hacks, A lot of them have worked in the
Newsom administration. Just what we need a third term of
the Newsom administration, or really the fifth, the fifth term
of Jerry Brown. Well, it's all that is coming up next.
Speaker 5 (18:18):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from kf I AM.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
Six forty around from one until four and then after
four o'clock John Cobelt Show on demand. That's the podcast,
same as the radio show, and we post that shortly
after four. Uh, there's a guy running for governor. We're
gonna periodically highlight all the characters running for governor. There's
there's an increasing number of them. This guy was a
(18:46):
fringe player for a long time. He was in the legislature,
He was a congressman. He ended up being the Attorney
General of California under Newsom and then was selected by
Joe Biden. Biden had a thing for picking up a
loser California politicians like Kamala Harris was the vice president
and this guy was named Secretary of Health and Human Services.
(19:10):
Hobbyer Bakaria Javier Bakaria, Sabber Bakaria. That's how Biden introduced
him when he was when he was selected. Now, Hobbyer
Bakaria is actually Xavier Bessera Hobbier Bakaria. Right. No, nobody
knew five years ago that Biden was senile. Right, Hobbier Bakaria.
(19:35):
Hobbier Bakaria. Well, uh, Bakorea is now running for governor.
Maybe we'll call him governor Bakaia. Hobbyer Bakaria, and he
announced and Alex Michaelson from Fox eleven is having him
on as a guest on the issue is, which runs
(19:56):
tomorrow night at ten thirty. But we haven't had an
advanced lip and now you're going to hear he is
such a political hack. You're going to hear the hackiest
answer a politician can give. Alex keeps pushing him for
specifics on what he's going to do differently. It's that
question again, same thing that tripped up Kamala Harris. Listen
(20:19):
to Bakaria spew for a couple of.
Speaker 7 (20:21):
Minutes expensive to live in California for a lot of people,
right that housing affordability, It is all the rest of that.
Speaker 4 (20:28):
But whose fault is that?
Speaker 7 (20:29):
Because Democrats have had a super majority in Sacramento for
decades now run every statewide office, isn't that the Democrats fault?
Speaker 1 (20:38):
Well, it's a.
Speaker 4 (20:39):
Growing issue we've had. Remember we've had Republican governors as well.
At homes too.
Speaker 7 (20:43):
Yeah, Arnold Torzenegger was elected in two thousand and six.
Speaker 4 (20:46):
I guarantee you Holmes in California two thousand and six,
we're too expensive back then, I.
Speaker 7 (20:51):
Know, but it's gone up a lot in the last
twenty years.
Speaker 4 (20:54):
We have not tackled it the way we should. And
I think principally the reason we have this issue in
California on price is because we haven't built enough, and
that means it's a type market. Everyone still wants to
come to California. People may be leaving, but there are
a whole bunch of people who would love to be
at a live in California.
Speaker 7 (21:09):
Well, from a policy perspective, what specific change are you
proposing that would be different than the status quo right
now that would make a difference and make prices less
in California.
Speaker 4 (21:21):
Yeah, I can tell you that status quo business as
usual is not on California California voter's mind as the
thing to do, and so I think all of us
are going to be talking change. But here's what I
would do. I would take the experience I had having
to lead this country at the Department of Health and
Human Services out of a pandemic, a once in a
lifetime pandemic, having to negotiate for the first time in
(21:44):
our history, the lower prices for prescription drugs of some
of the most expensive drugs.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
Just stop a second. You noticee hasn't said is what
he's going to do differently than what Gavin Newsom has
been doing, because he's not going to do anything differently.
He was part of the Newsome administration a few years
ago Health in Human Services. Do you know what he
did there? He was in charge of lockdown policies and
(22:13):
vaccine policies. He once said it is absolutely the government's
business to know people's vaccination status. He's one of those guys.
We had the harshest climate here in California for lockdowns
and he didn't do any good. You know, we ended
(22:38):
up very similar to the way Florida ended up, which
had a lot of freedom early on, but he was
a lockdown and required vaccination guy. Play more.
Speaker 4 (22:52):
Lower prices for prescription drugs of some of the most
expensive drugs that our seniors on Medicare program have to use.
I would say say, you need to bring the problem
right to the table with the best experts there. You
scrub it and then whatever is left, whatever's clean and survives.
That's what you do, and we've not.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
You get experts together, you talk about all the possibilities,
and then you scrub it. You scrub it with like
a brellopad what what what does that mean? You scrub it?
I've never heard that used. Is that like doging it? Oh,
they're not going to be doging They're not going to
(23:32):
be like rooting out of the fraud and waist continue,
bring the problem.
Speaker 4 (23:37):
Right to the table with the best experts. There, you
scrub it again, and then whatever is left, whatever's clean
and survives. That's what you do. And we've not been
willing to do that because of all the politics, all
the old ways of doing things. We get caught up
in this knee jerk reaction that we can't do it
that way. Time to change.
Speaker 7 (23:56):
But is there a specific policy change that you would
propose time to make a difference on some of these
affordability issues?
Speaker 4 (24:03):
I think so, uh housing development. I think everyone agrees
we don't build enough. It's not enough to say, okay,
we all agree we don't build enough and they're not
doing anything that If I agree, then everyone from all
sides of this sit down. Scrub it. Because this is
what I had to do with COVID. This is what
I had to do when we're trying to get rid
of monkey pox, MPOs. This is what I had to
(24:23):
do when we were figuring out what prices to negotiate
on the drugs, figure out where we could go and
then use.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
So wait, does he want us to wash our hands
like in COVID When we had COVID, Well, we scrubbed it.
When we had monkey pox, we scrubbed it. He caught
himself too monkey pile. Yeah. Way, we scrubbed COVID and
we scrubbed monkey pox. He was into mandatory masking, mandatory vaccines,
(24:58):
even pregnant women in infants. Yeah, yeah, you want this guy? Huh.
You know, people talk about how they want the control
of their body, you know, when it comes to reproductive rights.
Can we have control of our body when it comes
to injecting vaccines that carry elements of a deadly virus
(25:21):
in them? By the way, we played a clip of
this last week of Patrick Sun Chiang, the time Z owner.
But you know, his real business in life has been
a science researcher. He actually cured cancer, a certain kind
of cancer. That's how he made his billions of dollars.
(25:42):
He invented a cancer drug and then manufactured it for
a time and then sold two companies for several billion dollars.
And he's been doing research, and he thinks that the
spike in cancers, by colorectal cancer in younger people is
related to the COVID virus and maybe the COVID vaccine.
(26:09):
So the government forced vaccines on a lot of people.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
Although we did it voluntarily, every single one of them.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
We did it voluntarily. And that that's the last time
I'm going to do it. I hope I escape this,
this cancer surge that's going on in this country. That
that I mean, since Youyan said he hasn't slept for
two years. He's so consumed with worry. He did a
podcast with Tucker Carlson. It's on the iHeart app too.
(26:37):
You ought to listen to this. It's a couple of hours,
but it's it's worth it. And Trump wanted him to
have a position in the administration, uh in a medical
role obviously, and others who were involved in the whole
COVID policy debacle blocked him from getting in. He's got
(27:00):
I had some pretty scary stuff to say about how
this virus in the vaccine may lead to the cancer
surge now, and he's also got some really intriguing, worrisome
stuff about the politics going on inside these health agencies. Well,
I got a lot on Besarah, but not now. Plenty
(27:23):
of time. I'm keeping a Javier Bakaria file. When we
come back, Amy King is coming on because her Wiggle
Waggle Walk is this weekend.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
Are you gonna go wiggle waggle?
Speaker 1 (27:34):
I'm gonna wiggle my waggle. No, I'm not available to
wiggle waggle. But Amy's gonna explain how you could get involved.
Are you gonna wiggle waggle?
Speaker 3 (27:45):
I am not, but I did donate I have plans
or else I would go.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
All right, because you have two dogs. I do. We'll
be back and we'll talk to Amy King, and then
after three o'clock we're going to speak with with Todd Bensman.
He's the journalist who's been at the border for quite
some time, and he's going to talk about the massive
drop infentinel smuggling that's going on because of Trump's immigration policies.
(28:14):
That's all ahead.
Speaker 5 (28:15):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
Amy King hosts wake Up Call at five o'clock in
the morning, and she's hosting also the annual Wiggle Waggle
Walk for Pasadena Humane Society. Let's get Amy on here
because you could be a part of this and bring
yourself and your dog and you can go wiggle together. Amy.
Speaker 8 (28:38):
Good afternoon, John. First of all, thanks for letting me
come on and appeal to your listeners to join our
team and make a donation. The Wiggle Waggle Walk is Sunday,
that's just three days away, April sixth. It's at Brookside
Park at the Rose Bowl and they've got a one
mile walk if you're just a beginner, they've got a
three mile walk and run. It's actually a five k
(29:02):
that starts at nine o'clock. The event opens at eight
and along with dog walking, there's vendors and food trucks
and training demonstrations and the ever popular dog costume contest.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
It's a big deal, a dog costume contest.
Speaker 8 (29:20):
You'd be amazed at how many people dress their dogs up.
And some of them get so creative. So it's all they.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
Dressed their dogs up. Oh I thought they were dressing
as dogs. I thought this was like a furry gate thing. No, okay,
all right, one, all right, so you dress up your
dog and you bring all right.
Speaker 8 (29:37):
That's better, absolutely, and it's gonna the weather is going
to be absolutely perfect. It's going to be like seventy
five to eighty this Sunday, And so if you want
to get out of the house on Sunday morning, it's
not even super super early because the event starts at eight,
the walks at nine, and all the money that we raised,
as you mentioned, goes to Pasadena Humane And you know,
we've partnered with them for quite a while and they
(29:58):
do such great work to take care of animals and
get them to the health that they need to be
so that they are ready to be adopted and find
their forever homes. And this year is even more even
more important to donate because they take in animals that
were affected by the Eton fire. You know, when people
(30:18):
lose their homes, dogs lose their homes too, And they
took in like twelve hundred animals in the days after
the fires. They were finding animals in the rubble a
week later and then taking them in and treating them
and nursing them back to health. And what they're doing
is really really amazing.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
Were they able to find the owners in most cases?
Speaker 8 (30:37):
In most cases, yeah, they've reunited the owners and then
any the few that they weren't able to, they get
them ready for adoption, and they make them available for adoption.
There's a few I think there. I think it's just
like a handful that were found after the fires and
haven't been placed in homes yet. And then the other
thing that they're doing is because you know, nine thousand
(30:58):
homes are destroyed, and that means that the people don't
have a place to keep their animals, and so they
still have a couple hundred. I believe that that they're
boarding for free until they can get their dogs back
with their families. So they know that they're there, they
just don't have a place to keep them right now.
So Pasadena Humane's taking them in, all right.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
It's a lot of work, all right. So go through
the day and the time and the location again.
Speaker 8 (31:22):
Okay, it's this Sunday, April sixth. It's at Brookside Park
at the Rose Buls So the walk is actually around
the Rose Bowl the five k so it's a beautiful walk.
The event starts at eight, and that's where you're going
to find the vendors and food trucks and the training
demonstrations all that, and then the run and walk starts
at nine. O'clock and then we've got the contest for
(31:42):
the costume contest is after the walk and run, and
there's lots and lots of booths. If you have animals,
they've got treats and all kinds of cool things that
you can boots for your animals.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
Boots booth. I thought you said boots of lots of
lots of booze for your dog. All right. It's KFI
AM six forty dot com slash Wiggle and that's where
people can donate money, all right.
Speaker 8 (32:07):
That's where you can donate. And also if you want
to join our team. I think we're up over thirty
people who are going to walk with the wait for it,
wake Up Call Wigglers. They've joined our team. So he'd
like to walk with us, We would love to have you.
Even if you don't have a dog, you can come
and walk with us or come check out the event.
And they're also going to have the Wiggle Waggle Wagon
where they're going to have some animals that are adoptable
(32:29):
on site. So if you're maybe thinking that maybe it's
time to add to the family, you might find your
favorite dog there. So it's all happening again. Sunday and
you can get donation information and also sign up to
walk with us KFI AM six forty dot com slash wiggle.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
All right, thanks Amy, Good luck with it Sunday.
Speaker 8 (32:49):
Thanks again, John, appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
Oh sure, when we come back, we're going to have
Todd benzmanon. He writes for the Center for Immigration Studies,
longtime journalist. He's been at the border for you years
and he's now lonely. There's nobody at the border anymore.
Nobody's crossing. You know what else, they don't have crossing
as much fentanyl. Apparently fentanyl shipments have dropped dramatically. Todd's
(33:11):
gonna explain all this. He'll be on next Deborah Mark
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